Title: The New cultural history: essays by Aletta Biersack ... [et al.]Author: Biersack, AlettaPublished: University of California Press, 1989Subjects: LawPublisher's Description: Across the humanities and the social sciences, disciplinary boundaries have come into question as scholars have acknowledged their common preoccupations with cultural phenomena ranging from rituals and ceremonies to texts and discourse. Literary critics, for example, have turned to history for a dee . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: The life of the law: anthropological projectsAuthor: Nader, LauraPublished: University of California Press, 2002Subjects: Anthropology | LawPublisher's Description: Laura Nader, an instrumental figure in the development of the field of legal anthropology, investigates an issue of vital importance for our time: the role of the law in the struggle for social and economic justice. In this book she gives an overview of the history of legal anthropology and at the s . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Lawyers in society [computer file]: an overviewAuthor: Abel, Richard LPublished: University of California Press, 1996Subjects: Law | Sociology | PoliticsPublisher's Description: Among all those who encounter the law in the conduct of their lives or who consider it as a career, few have a solid understanding of the legal profession in America, and fewer still know anything about systems in other parts of the world. Lawyers in Society offers a concise comparative introduction . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Habermas on law and democracy: critical exchangesAuthor: Rosenfeld, Michel 1948-Published: University of California Press, 1998Subjects: Philosophy | Law | PoliticsPublisher's Description: In the first essay, Habermas himself succinctly presents the centerpiece of his theory: his proceduralist paradigm of law. The following essays comprise elaborations, criticisms, and further explorations by others of the most salient issues addressed in his theory. The distinguished group of contrib . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Public health law and ethics: a readerAuthor: Gostin, Larry O. (Larry Ogalthorpe)Published: University of California Press, 2002Subjects: Law | Medicine | Health CarePublisher's Description: This incisive selection of government reports, scholarly articles, and court cases is designed to illuminate the ethical, legal, and political issues in the theory and practice of public health. A companion to the internationally acclaimed Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, this collection e . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Early Greek lawAuthor: Gagarin, MichaelPublished: University of California Press, 1989Subjects: Classics | Classical Politics | LawPublisher's Description: Drawing on the evidence of anthropology as well as ancient literature and inscriptions, Gagarin examines the emergence of law in Greece from the 8th through the 6th centuries B.C., that is, from the oral culture of Homer and Hesiod to the written enactment of codes of law in most major cities.Similar Items

Title: The concept of neutrality in classical GreeceAuthor: Bauslaugh, Robert APublished: University of California Press, 1991Subjects: Classics | Law | Classical HistoryPublisher's Description: Looking at Classical warfare from the perspective of the non-belligerents, Robert A. Bauslaugh brings together the scattered evidence testifying to neutral behavior among the Greek city-states and their non-Greek neighbors. Were the Argives of 480/479 B.C. really "Medizers," as many have accused, or . . . [more]Similar Items